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“Trash” by New York Dolls
From the album New York Dolls (1973)
“Trash” by New York Dolls appears on 6 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 2001 and 2022. It was first released in 1973 on the album New York Dolls. Its best result is #440 on the WXPN 885 Greatest Rock Songs (2012). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #4,252 alternative song of all time.
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"Trash" was the New York Dolls' first single, shipped by Mercury in July 1973 as a double A-side with "Personality Crisis" off their self-titled debut, and it wastes no time at all: it slams straight into the chorus, David Johansen hamming it up grandly as he pleads with his girl not to throw her life away. Johansen wrote it with Sylvain Sylvain, and Todd Rundgren produced it.
It went nowhere on the charts, but critics have since come around to hearing it as a glam anthem and a blueprint for punk. Writer Phil Strongman read it as a love story from the gutter end of New York, a place of hustlers and junkies who are still people and whose lives still add up to tragedy. The Dolls came back to it in 2009 with a reggae-flavored remake on Cause I Sez So.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 997 | WFPK | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2000 |
| 2002 | 1626 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
| 2003 | 540 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
| 2012 | 440 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Rock Songs (2012) | 885 |
| 2022 | 517 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '70s | 908 |
| 2022 | 715 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time | 1055 |
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